Title
Report and correspondence of comments on report for The Agricultural and Food Research Council "Risk assessment research in relation to the agricultural exploitation of transgenic crops"
Reference
MS/2144/03/56
Creator
- Dale, Philip JBiographyBiography
(1972-) Genetic Scientist
Leader of the Genetic Modification and Biosafety Research Group at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. He worked in agriculture for several years before graduating in Agricultural Botany and obtaining a doctorate in Plant Genetics.
Following a period of plant breeding and genetics research at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station (1972-85), he became Research Group Leader at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge during the mid-late 1980's, where he was involved in the first field experiments with GM crops and led several research programmes on biosafety assessment. Professor Dale moved to the John Innes Centre in Norwich in 1990 and currently leads several research programmes studying the behaviour and stability of GM crops.
From 1993 to 1999, he was a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) and during 1998 he became a member of the UK Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes. He was appointed Deputy Chair of the committee in 2002. In 2000 he was asked to join the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, which provided the Government with advice on developments in biotechnology and their implications for agriculture and the environment.
In August 2002 Dale was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of East Anglia and became a Fellow of the Institute of Biology.
- The Agricultural and Food Research CouncilBiographyBiography
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Comments from other researchers such as Crute
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- Crute, IanBiographyBiography
(b.1949) Plant Pathologist
Formerly the Director of Rothamsted Research, Professor Crute is the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board's Chief Scientist. At Rothamstead Research Crute’s responsibilities were for all scientific, operational, commercial and external liaison activities of the institute. This was a role Crute held since 1999 through most of the GM debate. The crop portfolio at Rothamstead covered cereals, oilseeds, sugar beet, potatoes, willow and miscanthus and input into tropical crops.
Crute achieved a First-Class Honours degree in botany and a PhD in plant pathology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was a research group leader in plant pathology at what is now Warwick-HRI from 1973 to 1986. In 1986 he obtained a Fulbright Fellowship and went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA to work on the genetics of resistance to fungal pathogens. On his return to England a year later he moved to HRI East Malling as Head of the Crop and Environment Protection Department. In 1993 he decided to move back to HRI at Warwick and spent two years as Head of Plant Pathology before he was promoted to Director at Wellesbourne with overall responsibility for the research direction at the site.
Crute's scientific contributions are recorded in over 160 publications and has been awarded the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1992 and the British Crop Production Council Medal in 2006. He was elected as President of the British Society for Plant Pathology in 1995 and was honoured with a Visiting Professorship in the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford. His committee and board memberships include: Chairman of the Sainsbury Laboratory Council, member of the Lead Expert Group on the “Future of Food and Farming” Foresight project and Board member of HGCA’s Crop Evaluation Ltd.
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